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BETHANY EDEN JACOBSON
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28:15
The Flea Theater: A Portrait
This thirty minute documentary portrays the iconoclastic Flea Theater, during the 2008 season. Highlights include interviews with Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Andre De Shields, Adam Rapp, Carol Ostrow, Roger Rosenblatt, A.R. Gurney and Liz Swados. Aired on PBS in 2009. Produced, directed and shot.
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Counterstory: After Incarceration
Associate Producer & Cinematographer. Half-hour documentary about two formerly incarcerated adults and the challenges they face acclimating to academic life after prison. Premiered at the (In)Justice Film Festival, Chicago, October 2018. Screened at the Reentry Best Practices Symposium at Borough of Manhattan Community College, May 3, 2019
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Hotel Bleu Trailer
A down and out stand up comedian finds refuge at Hoel Bleu where she meets a charismatic trumpet player half her age and gets her mojo back. Available on Amazon.
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"Removing My Mask" - Made episode
Sarah Mattingly, an 'emo' teen from Arizona with big attitude decides she wants to be made into a pageant queen. Will her coach Ms. Arizona give up on her or does Sarah have what it takes? It's on vimeo for non-commercial purposes only.
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26:46
"HOTEL BLEU" (26 minutes)
Written & directed by Bethany Jacobson. Starring Broadway veteran Julie Halston and jazz musician and composer Wayne Tucker. An award winning short film screened at numerous festivals. Won Bronze Remy at Houston Worldfest 2017 and Best Live Action Short Film at Louisianna International Film Festival. It is streaming on Amazon.
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15:06
Jonathan Batiste and The Stay Human band at Joe's Pub 6/28/12
Wonderful night of amazing music from Jon Batiste and Stay Human at Joe's Pub.
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19:50
Lets Go Bowling
An acrobatic painter confronts a myriad of eccentrics as she paints a wall. Shot in 16mm. Screened at New Orleans Film Festival, Upsalla International Film Festival (Sweden), The New Orleans Film Festival, Carolines Comedy Club, NYC & Les Recontres Cinematographiques des Film du Cirque in France.
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04:29
Never Again, Again
False Prophets music video for song "Never Again, Again". Aired on MTV in 1989. Filmed at Pyramid Club, Times Square and Downtown NYC.
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15:57
Every Mistake Is A New Style
In 1989, a young homesteader living in a burnt out squatter building in the East Village struggles to come to terms with her East German boyfriend.
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27:30
Raw Zones video installation
"Raw Zones", written, directed and produced by Bethany Jacobson. This three channel synchronized video installation was exhibited for two months in Spring of 1987 at PS 1 in Long Island City. It was created in part at The Experimental Television Center and includes image processed footage.It was shot on East 7th Street between B&C. Set in the trenches of a modern day "war zone" this "punk opera" reinterprets the myth of Pandora. The walls of the installation are papered with archival stills of telecommunications systems used by IBM, ATT and NASA and the Dept of Defense. The director of photography was Babette Mangolte, known for her work with Chantal Ackerman and Sally Potter. The cast included East Village luminary Tuli Kupferberg of the infamous Fugs and Robert Watlington, veteran East Village artist and poet and the soundtrack was composed by Stephen Taylor.
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